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October 1975 - Friday 24
<br>United Nations Day - 297th day - 68 days to come
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Rcd. package of 4 games from <u>Robert Brass</u>: <u>DECK AB!</u>
(<u>COVER UP</u>), <u>TOTEM</u>, <u>SAFARI ROUND UP</u>, <u>DRAG-OMINOS</u>.
<br>Thinking more about the word <u>GAME</u> with the topological twist.
Remembered that <u>Claude</u> once had a somewhat similar idea.
Found it on 8/22/64: unnamed <u>GAME</u>.
<br>Thinking of a different approach - a large quadrille of letters.
"Chunks" are marked of and players make words - taking letters
in order from left to right and down lines, but skipping any
number of letters between. Later decided that it would be
better to allow letters to be taken in any order.
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(cont. from 10/22) [10/23]
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distribution: A-5, B-2, C-2, D-3, E-8, F-2, G-2, H-2, I-5, J-1,
K-1, L-3, M-Z, N-4, O-5, P-2, Q-1, R-4, S-3, T-4, U-3, V-2, W-2, X-1,
Y-2, Z-1.
<br>Each player in turn throws the 12 dice and tries to form
as long a word as he can as fast as he can. He pays $1 per second
for the first 15 seconds and $2 per second for the second 15
seconds (30 seconds is the maximum time). The player collects
according to the length of the word formed: - 1 - $10, Z- $20,
3 - $30, 4 - $40, 5 - $50, 6 - $70, 7- $100, 8 - $140, 9 - $190,
10 - $250, 11 - $320, 12 - $400. There is some provision for
"side bets" but it doesn't seem to add anything to the game.
<br>Told Felicia it might be interesting - she had a descrip-
tion instead of a model. She'll have the inventor bring in a
model.
<br>During my visit she rcd. a call from <u>Joseph Scott</u> and when
he heard I was there he wanted to say hello. He told me
that he saw me mentioned a lot in <u>G&P</u>.
<br>I looked in the closet to see what came back from Hallmark of
mine: <u>DIGIT</u>, <u>TROMINO GO</u>, <u>PE-LING</u>, <u>ANOTHER</u>, and <u>RED LETTER</u>.
(Didn't check to see if anything was missing, <u>TAKE-A-WORD</u>
was also back from Aladdin. And from before there was
<u>THE WINNING TICKET</u> and <u>SHAPE AND SHATTER</u>.
She asked me to take Claude's <u>DUEL</u> to return to him.
<br>To S.P.I. Spoke to <u>Redmund</u> and he assured me that all of the
games I wrote up will be in <u>S&T</u> no. 53. The next column is
due in seven weeks.
<br>Took a boxed set of <u>NAPOLEON AT WAR</u> (which I later discovered was a
duplicate.) Also took folio copies of the four individual games:
<u>JENA-AUERSTADT</u>, <u>MARENGO</u>, <u>WAGRAM</u>, <u>THE BATTLE OF NATIONS</u>.
<br>Made repros of rules for <u>GAMBIT</u>, <u>ZODIAC STAR CHESS</u>, and <u>PHALANX</u>
(also pieces for <u>PHALANX</u>) - to send to <u>Phil Cohen</u>.
<br>Spoke to <u>Richard Berg</u>. He said he hasn't seen anything new of interest
lately.
<br><u>Vincent Grissino</u> there with his game <u>SHIFT</u>. We played
<br>(cont. on 10/25)